New housing planned for Adelaide's NE

Land in Adelaide's north-eastern suburbs will be turned into housing and open space.

Urban Development Minister Paul Holloway the land at Highbury recently was included within Adelaide's urban growth boundary.

It includes a former mine and a disused landfill site. Both will be rehabilitated.

Mr Holloway says about 70 hectares will be used for housing and a link will be created between two parks.

"About 300 hectares of land ... in the hills face zone will be handed over to the state so we'll now have a continuous park system between the Black Hill Conservation Park and the Anstey's Recreation Park, so that's also a very good outcome, we believe," he said.

About 800 houses are expected to be built.

But the State Opposition says people buying housing in the new area will have poor access to public health services as they are being stripped from nearby Modbury Hospital.